Is There A Link? Not If Newsweek Can Help It!
David Kincaid has a great piece on the MSM’s effort, namely Newsweek, to dismiss any connection between Saddam and AlQaida.
The controversy involves an article in Newsweek magazine’s Periscope, called “A Special White House Slide Show,” revisiting the issue of a meeting in Prague, Czechoslovakia in April of 2001 allegedly involving Muhammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 terrorists who crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The meeting allegedly was with an Iraqi intelligence officer, Ahmed al-Ani, and if true, could provide a strong link between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq government and al-Qaeda, and even indicate possible involvement by Saddam in the horrific terrorist act of 9/11.
Newsweek said that in 2002, the Pentagon had produced three sets of slides”one version for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, one for CIA director George Tenet, and one for the White House, each as part of a report showing alleged ties between Iraq and al Qaeda.
In the White House presentation, according to Newsweek’s sources, there was a slide that wasn’t part of the others, suggesting that the Atta meeting had, in fact, taken place. It gave specific details of the alleged visit, including one reference that al-Ani ordered an Iraqi intelligence officer to “issue funds to Atta.”
But Newsweek couldn’t accept this and dismissed the explosive information. Its sources were four “former senior intel officials who monitored investigations into Atta’s alleged Iraqi contacts:” and who were anonymous. They were said to have “rejected” the “anecdote” about the payoff, though it doesn’t say why they rejected it.
Who are these officials? Are these the officials who falsely told Newsweek that the Koran had been flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay? If so, Newsweek needs some new sources.
February 14, 2006 - 02:41 PM on February 14th, 2006
The NEWSWEEK toilet paer magazine is still spewing the sewage whats with them anyway?:mad:
February 14, 2006 - 08:35 PM on February 14th, 2006
They shoukld change their name to “Newsweak”. Even at that, “News” in the title is a misnomer. It should be called Pravda.
Slime (Time) is another not-so-thinly veiled Leftie rag too. Their favorite tactic with their “news” stories is to use innuendo. They report the “facts” of a story that will support their predetermined conclusion, then use innuendo to lead the reader to arrive at that conclusion.
Of course those of us who get information from other sources and so know the full range of facts are easily able to detect this and see through their bs.